…by not recycling:

…recycling is no way to reduce global warming. In fact, by increasing energy use, it worsens it.

[Update mid morning]

Someone asked in comments in this post if I made up the phrase “Green Man’s Burden,” and if it was the first usage. Well, it turns out that I wasn’t first (though I did come up with it independently). Here’s an instance of it at the Competitive Enterprise Institute back in 2000. And here’s an instance on Usenet from 1991. Great minds think alike, I guess.